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TopicPolitical Humour

Topic: Political Humour

Indian politicians need to learn to take a joke

From stand-up comics facing FIRs to political leaders bristling at memes, India remains deeply uncomfortable with the freedom to mock.

Fear in Delhi comedy clubs. Hair loss, first kiss, uncle jokes, but no politics

Young standup comedians are following a no-offence policy in Delhi-NCR clubs like Light Room and Comedy Cartel. 'We don’t want to take risks that could end our career.'

Troubles of trigger-happy America, and why Erdogan hates turkeys

The best international cartoons of the week, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Non-violent way to send illegal immigrants back, and life-guard Mahinda runs away in Sri Lanka

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Whose body, and whose choice? Plus prisoner no. 666 is a Covid threat

The best international cartoons of the week, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Modi’s positive equation with NRIs, and how bulldozer politics helps India’s economic standing

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

MAGA Corona ready to fly after Trump appointee voids mask mandate & Boris Johnson’s human shield

The best international cartoons of the week, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Cooking on communal flames instead of dousing them, and what to do when life gives you lemons

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

The bulldozer branch of government, and an ingenious solution to the veg-non veg problem

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

The grades PM Modi got in his ‘pariksha’, and Pakistan surprised to know it has a constitution

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

Apple killed the base iPhone. Its status game is no longer subtle

The base model for the iPhone Duo has been pegged around Rs 3 lakh in India. The top model can cost you around Rs 4.5 lakh. You can buy a car instead.

India foreign reserves to help earn more revenue, says RBI chief

India drew a record $127 billion from its vast diaspora, surpassing even the most optimistic estimates and giving policymakers a bigger war chest to defend the currency.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.